Experts from Farrow & Ball, a leading manufacturer of traditional and modern paints, take a close-up look at four hundred years of paint, color, and decorative style, capturing the diverse design effects produced by different formulations, finishes, and painting techniques.

Product Description: In modern France, as in centuries past, village life revolves around the school, post office, shops and railway station, the centres where people meet to exchange news and to gossip. This is a visual distillation of village life in France today, where the traditions live on in the cafe that doubles as a charcuterie or in the small hotel (awarded no stars in the guide books) that provides for wedding receptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reveals the secrets of Swedish decorating and entertaining (view table of contents)

Illustrates twenty unique garden rooms, offering inspiration for colors, styles, textures, and arrangements